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Digging to America / a novel by Anne Tyler.

Tyler, Anne. (Author).

Summary:

Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating light on the American way as seen from two perspectives, those who are born here and those who are still struggling to fit in.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0307263940
  • Physical Description: 277 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Content descriptions

Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 13 107849.
Subject: Iranian American women > Fiction.
Assimilation (Sociology) > Fiction.
Intercountry adoption > Fiction.
Iranian Americans > Fiction.
Women immigrants > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Widows > Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.) > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 36 of 36 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Rolla Public.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 36 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Rolla Public Library FIC Tyl (Text) 38256101141137 Adult Fiction Available -

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